Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore visited the High Street in High Barnet this week in an effort to drum up support for local businesses in the run up to small business Saturday on 2nd December. Mr Dismore said: ‘I wrote to Barnet Council urging more effort to promote Small Business Saturday. There is more and […]
Read moreBrexit has lost UK economy £300m per week since EU referendum result, analysis finds – The Independent The difference between the estimated Remain vote counterfactual path and the actual path of UK GDP by the third quarter of 2017 is 1.3 per cent of GDP, or around £20bn The Leave campaign claimed Brexit would result in a £350m a week dividend […]
Read moreThe budget announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond is a culmination of 7 years of “disastrous economic policies”, according to Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore. The Government failed to meet deficit reduction targets yet again, and will only deliver a surplus budget after 2025, 10 years after they promised to. Growth forecasts have […]
Read moreDear editor, Letter for publication: the Budget Last week’s Budget did nothing to help Londoners deal with the challenges we face posed by Brexit, rising crime and security and safety concerns, the housing crisis, or toxic air quality. With the Brexit negotiations in chaos, and the economic impact of the current uncertainty being felt across the capital, the Budget was […]
Read moreInteresting article from The Times: The person making the news yesterday was not the chancellor, it was the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Robert Chote. Mr Chote and his colleagues finally lost patience with their own continued overoptimism on productivity growth and delivered a pretty grim set of forecasts. They no longer see productivity growth climbing towards […]
Read more